Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed

By Abi Balingit

Book Overview

New York Time's "The Best Cookbooks of 2023"

James Beard Award-winner for Emerging Voice 2024

James Beard Award-nominee for Baking and Desserts 2024

A sweet fusion baking book of fantastically imaginative remixed Filipino American dessert recipes, plus essays on the Filipino American experience by baker-fundraiser Abi Balingit.

When the pandemic started her lonely work-from-home life in 2020, Abi Balingit channeled all her energy into the one thing that brought her joy: baking. In her tiny, dimly lit, shared kitchen, she produced hundreds of "pasalubong" (souvenir) boxes filled with especially creative treats that blended Filipino desserts and Western style baked goods she grew up with. Each time, she'd sell out within hours and donated the proceeds to support her community in need.

Now Abi shares some of these cult-favorite desserts with Mayumu (which means "sweet" in one of the 8 major languages in Philippines), an incredibly fresh baking book of 75 recipes that span from the never-before-seen, incredibly inventive flavor combinations that Abi dreamed up, to the more familiar, classic Filipino favorites:

Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookie Strawberry Shortcake Sapin-Sapin (Rice Cakes)Ube Macapuno Molten Lava CakesMatcha PastillasMelon Chicharron CrumbleHalo-Halo Baked Alaska

Throughout, essays following Abi's heritage and self-discovery introduce the flavors and experiences that have shaped her life, from visiting the motherland and her parents' birthplace in Pampanga, Philippines, to California where she grew up and went to school, to her current home, Brooklyn, NY. This beautiful Filipino cookbook is a celebration of the Filipino American experience, perfect for home bakers wanting both nostalgic and excitingly new recipes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0063244063
• ISBN13: 9780063244061
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Harvest Publications
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Mayumu

I love how colorful and playful this book is, it’s a perfect reflection of the author. I’ve truthfully had this book for a while and have already made the adobo chocolate chip cookies, the tajin snickerdoodles (a crowd favorite at work), and the kare kare cookies, topped with spicy bagoong caramels. This is one of my favorite recipe books and I would really love to make everything in it at least once! (Will have to conquer my fear of lye water first tho)